(1) The following case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas encountered in a middle-aged patient who presented with dementia and apathetic hyperthyroidism.
(2) Data also suggest that black dyads are represented more frequently in the positive categories, and white dyads are more likely to be categorized as "apathetic" or "hostile."
(3) Apathetic hyperthyroidism was first described in the medical literature by Lahey in 1931.
(4) the agitated type of involutional melancholy occurred twice as often in Canada as in Hungary, the apathetic cases were rarer in Canada, and the illness began earlier among Canadian women.
(5) Given that less than half of the Union's electorate are likely to vote at all, those figures suggest an overwhelming majority of Europeans are either apathetic towards the ongoing project of a common borderless European home or actively hostile.
(6) Among the psychosyndromes least well known to be associated with an endocrinopathy is apathetic hyperthyroidism.
(7) Several factors account for the relative ineffectiveness of family planning: some women abandon contraceptive methods for illogical reasons, especially after a traumatic event in their lives; sex education is still often insufficient; ignorance causes excessive fear of possible or imagined effects of contraceptives; part of the population is simply apathetic and irresponsible; finally, the availability of abortion may be a factor, although it is the worst method of birth control.
(9) This generation, the younger generation, are supposed to apathetic, they are supposed to be not interested in politics and yet they are flocking out there to our meetings.
(10) The drug was clinically well tolerated in all except one animal that became apathetic and refused to eat.
(11) They tended to be solitary, unresponsive, inert or apathetic, and were not much liked by others.
(12) Trump has energised and galvanised the apathetic and apolitical.
(13) Asked for their opinions on Labour and politics in general, the most common response is apathetic: "I don't do politics, mate.
(14) By application of descriptive methods, integrating operationally estimated findings with clinically-impressively estimated "interactional atmosphere", we defined eight types of phenomenological constellations of persistent alterations ("residual-types") of functional disorders: "depletion syndrome", "apathetic-paranoid syndrome (resp.
(15) A 32-year-old woman was admitted because of an apathetic state.
(16) We here describe a case of apathetic thyrotoxicosis in a 16-year-old female subject who presented with a range of non-specific symptoms.
(17) The Church of England has launched a strongly worded attack on Britain’s political culture, criticising politicians of all parties for offering only “sterile arguments” that are likely to make voters more apathetic and cynical in the runup to the general election.
(18) Far from being apathetic, natural selection cares very much about these mutations.
(19) You might think Mohamed is an unusual case, an outlier in a nation of apathetic young people disengaged from politics and uninterested in the world around them.
(20) A 68-year-old man with a history of organic heart disease and marked weight loss was found to have apathetic thyrotoxicosis and hypercalcemia.
Phlegmatic
Definition:
(a.) Watery.
(a.) Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.
(a.) Generating or causing phlegm.
(a.) Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person.
Example Sentences:
(1) This zoophilic dermatophyte may cause a difficult human phlegmatic trichophytia infection.
(2) In conditions of conflict between probability and value of reinforcement the dogs manifested two opposite strategies of behaviour: orientation to highly probable events (choleric and phlegmatic) and to low-probable events (sanguinic and melancholic) what is connected with individual properties of functioning and the character of interaction of four brain structures (frontal cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala).
(3) Rosberg, it seems, has resigned himself to the more phlegmatic tactic of doing his considerable best while hoping that Hamilton implodes.
(4) Cypriots are phlegmatic in a way their more hot-blooded Greek neighbours are not.
(5) If that means you’re not going to vote for me, well I’ve had my career, but I want to do what I think is the right thing, and if that means it costs me votes, it costs me votes.” Three decades in the police has had the added advantage of making him “phlegmatic” about his posters being repeatedly vandalised, he adds cheerfully.
(6) Surely murdering children at a pop concert should set these useless phlegmatic Brits’ blood boiling?
(7) A phlegmatic person is characterised by a lack of egoistic or altruistic instincts while feelings of nausea or fear are increased.
(8) While Brandon Lewis, Tory MP for Great Yarmouth, whose constituency includes the Hemsby area, pledged to help residents fight for more funds for coastal defence, some people were remarkably phlegmatic about the storm.
(9) The chancellor knew that Britain's biggest bank was in trouble even before McKillop came on the line, yet even the normally phlegmatic Darling was surprised at the size and immediacy of the crisis.
(10) That was why, he explained, Welshmen were put in charge instead of "the bovine and phlegmatic Anglo-Saxons."]
(11) Lebedev, a semi-opposition figure, was phlegmatic about his defeat, telling the Guardian: "My campaign lasted for three days."
(12) Even phlegmatic Germany had a post World Cup hangover; in an environment as emotionally volatile as South Africa, it's inevitable.
(13) Welby is said to be phlegmatic about the prospect, believing he has done everything possible to offer the opportunity to forge a new, looser relationship, which hardliners may choose to reject.
(14) One of the few to take the turn of events phlegmatically was Johnson’s father, Stanley, who said the appropriate phrase was “Et tu, Brute?” before going on to say he now thought Gove was the best choice.
(15) The 57-year-old surgeon from Glasgow, who had been booked on a flight yesterday anyway, was phlegmatic about the whole affair.
(16) "If we need to go back over that stuff," says Ashley, resolute and phlegmatic, "our problems were from 10 years ago.
(17) You have to do the best by your child, don’t you?” is intoned with a phlegmatic sigh, lips pressed together in wry acknowledgment that the situation isn’t ideal, but life’s a bitch, and one’s own child’s interests – obviously– trump every other consideration.
(18) The oligarch said he didn't regret bringing the case, and even attempted a phlegmatic note, observing: "Life is life," before speeding off in a black Mercedes.
(19) All I’m doing is giving a pint of blood over six months.” Ruth Atkins, an NHS communications manager and former nurse from Oxford, is similarly phlegmatic about her contribution.
(20) I thought of Georges Simenon’s curmudgeonly, phlegmatic detective, Chief Inspector Maigret.